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I think the more serious myth that's still prevalent is hiding under an overpass or getting up under the girders So there's a famous video from I think it's and over Kansas It's been a while. I actually have a VHS tape with it that I needed We need a VCR Jen telling my wife we need a VCR We've got a VCR in the garage the so there's a tornado and there's a a van, an Astrovan, and there's a TV crew and essentially the tornado is coming towards them. It's a weak tornado. There's an Astrovan blowing around in the tornado. They park, they hide up under the girders under an overpass or under, well they're under it's overpass. It's a small, it looks like it's a two-lane road that goes over the interstate. And they're fine, the tornado blows by and they're fine, but it gets very windy. There's new modeling and physics and engineering that shows that the winds actually increase. When you compress a wind, it's fluid dynamics, right? When you compress a wind or a flow or a fluid that's compressible under in a constricted area, it speeds up, right? So your laminar flow will speed up and the winds will increase and they can actually be more dangerous perhaps if you can somehow tuck yourself in deep under the girders you'll yeah it's more or less close in you'll be alright but generally you're still exposed and it's proven to be very dangerous right Bernoulli's principle so don't do that that's that's a myth the best thing you can do is get into a ditch if there's nothing else and get as low and flat as you can that's the best place but hiding under an overpass is not or an underpass whatever way you want to look at it that's that's a myth that's been perpetuated and that's a myth where we've seen people die recently you know in the last decade or two from tornadoes it won't save you it absolutely will not save you back to you Ken